‘American Carnage’ Unveiled

It doesn’t seem to sink in that this country’s so-called president withheld deadly serious information from the American people about such a life-altering, once-in-a-century coronavirus that it could kill them. It was his biggest lie yet. What Donald Trump did was comparable to setting the house on fire – our house – with “we the people” locked inside as we helplessly watched the smoke curling in under the doors and dying one by one with little or no possibility of rescue. More

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It Has Come to This: Ignore the C.D.C.

We were startled and dismayed last week to learn that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a perplexing series of statements, had altered its testing guidelines to reduce the testing of asymptomatic people for the coronavirus.

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In North Carolina and Around the US, Neoliberal Universities Are Sending Students Into Hell

Many colleges and universities around the country have insisted on reopening in-person classes and putting the burden of preventing coronavirus on individual college students. The administrators behind these decisions seem to care little for the obvious devastation this is wreaking among students.

Source: In North Carolina and Around the US, Neoliberal Universities Are Sending Students Into Hell

The Dystopian Coronavirus

A parade of armed white nationalists took over the Michigan statehouse demanding that Gretchen Whitmer “Liberate Michigan” and reopen. The police stood there and did nothing, with some likely smiling inside. Fast forward two months to Portland, Oregon, where protesters outside a federal building were tear gassed and beaten with batons by federal agents. Covid-19 More

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The Tragedy of Vaccine Nationalism | Foreign Affairs

Global cooperation on vaccine allocation would be the most efficient way to disrupt the spread of the virus

Source: The Tragedy of Vaccine Nationalism | Foreign Affairs

Here’s your field guide to the 5 main types of pandemic deniers

Every day there is more data to prove the dangers of the coronavirus. Yet, bizarrely, the more proof we have of the damage of the pandemic; the more vicious and hysterical its deniers. It is hard not to be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of uninformed, deluded ideas covidiots spew on a daily basis.

Source: Here’s your field guide to the 5 main types of pandemic deniers – Alternet.org

Georgia’s Coronavirus Crisis Is Being Covered Up

Since Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp reopened the economy, infection rates have skyrocketed. But the state has found a way to deal with the problem — by making the surge of new cases disappear from the government’s official COVID-19 tracking website.

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“No Return to the ‘Old Normal’ for Foreseeable Future,” Warns WHO Chief

“If the basics aren’t followed, there is only one way this pandemic is going to go. It’s going to get worse and worse and worse.”

Source: “No Return to the ‘Old Normal’ for Foreseeable Future,” Warns WHO Chief | Common Dreams News

Paul Krugman issues dire warning about next four months

In his column for the New York Times, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman expressed dismay that — even with coronavirus infection rates going through the roof across the country —Donald Trump is still acting like the health crisis is over and Americans should return to their normal lives.

Source: Paul Krugman issues dire warning about next four months – Alternet.org